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Thumbsucker

September 2005 •English

Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.

Blue & White

May 2022 •English

A man suffering with ADHD struggles to get through his daily routine.

Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes

January 2006 •English

Trying

December 2021 •English

Meg, a millennial painter with ADHD, navigates her life on the way to a job interview. What starts as a simple task turns into a race against the clock as she encounters society’s stigmas, unlikely allies, and challenges from her past.

Alleen Ik (Only me, me alone)

November 2022 •Dutch

Longing for acceptance, a neurodivergent boy taunts the boundaries of his best friend: his brother.

Freshman's Ballad

May 2022 •English

The story of a lonely, emotional and almost psychotic freshman’s in his first year of High School.

plants with spikes or thorns

April 2015 •

An experimental short film about sensory seeking behaviour in childhood. Filmed on VHS.

Hyper

August 2021 •English

Jamie is a woman in her 30s who has recently been diagnosed with ADHD. The diagnosis doesn't come as a surprise, in fact it all now makes sense. She's constantly walking on eggshells, always scared of saying the wrong thing. Jamie and Allie are falling in love. Always late, messy and not listening, will Allie lose interest in Jamie?

Non Grata

March 2022 •Spanish

Julia and her son Dani with ADHD attend a birthday party to which they haven’t been invited. Parents seem reluctant to let them in but they end up letting them pass. The party goes on well until an aggression between the kids makes the adults to blame Dani and Julia loses her temper for defending him.

The Star of Therapy

August 2019 •English

When Kendra is admitted into group therapy, she becomes overly competitive about completing her weekly goals.

Remedial

May 2023 •English

As Will struggles to cope with the tragic loss of his father, he and his mother resolve to build a new life by relocating to Houston, Texas. At his new school, Will’s social and learning difficulties lead to a false diagnosis of his condition. Inspired by real events, this film observes one of the loneliest disorders that children recovering from life-altering traumas face.

The Selfish Giant

October 2013 •English

A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.

The Specials

October 2019 •French

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.

Untitled

December 2025 •Portuguese

The perspective of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

The Worst Ones

December 2022 •French

The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.

TDAH - O Conhecimento Facilita a Adesão

January 2010 •Portuguese

Focus

December 2014 •English

A 1-minute cart ride through the mental shopping mall of attention deficit disorder. Inspired by found sound of a shopper’s vlog, hand-drawn without a light table, and produced as part of the 10th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

Portrait du trouble déficitaire de l'attention avec ou sans hyperactivité

February 2006 •French

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

April 2010 •English

Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

Sick Girls

October 2023 •German

In recent years, the number of diagnoses of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has skyrocketed. What are the reasons? Does a society geared towards efficiency use the label ADHS to weed out anyone who does not fit its frames? What are the consequences of the fact that medication treatment has become almost ubiquitous? Could Ritalin and the like have become the doping of the performance society?